International Fame 1-4 Hiram king of Tyre sent ambassadors to Solomon when he heard that he had been crowned king in David’s place. Hiram had loved David his whole life….

1-6 Four hundred and eighty years after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s rule over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month,…

1-5 It took Solomon another thirteen years to finish building his own palace complex. He built the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five…

1-2 Bringing all this to a climax, King Solomon called in the leaders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the family patriarchs, to bring up the Chest…

1-2 After Solomon had completed building The Temple ofGodand his own palace, all the projects he had set his heart on doing,Godappeared to Solomon again, just as he had appeared…

The Queen of Sheba Visits 1-5 The queen of Sheba heard about Solomon and his connection with the Name ofGod. She came to put his reputation to the test by…

1-5 King Solomon was obsessed with women. Pharaoh’s daughter was only the first of the many foreign women he loved—Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite. He took them from the…

Rehoboam 1-2 Rehoboam traveled to Shechem where all Israel had gathered to inaugurate him as king. Jeroboam had been in Egypt, where he had taken asylum from King Solomon; when…

1-3 And then this happened: Just as Jeroboam was at the Altar, about to make an offering, a holy man came from Judah byGod’s command and preached (these wereGod’s orders)…

1-3 At about this time Jeroboam’s son Abijah came down sick. Jeroboam said to his wife, “Do something. Disguise yourself so no one will know you are the queen and…